Family Business: The Pholus Factor

After a rollicking two weeks of ridiculous "news," I propose that it's time to step back a little and take in the wider scene. What is driving the current insanity of the world? The Pholus factor.
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M. C. Escher Looks like we are mostly good to go. There was a problem with the audio in the third block; if you’re patient, it is listenable. I could not re-record it for a third time. — efc DISCUSSION AND NOTES ARE ON SUBSTACK. Alt Player (standard HTML5) | Download Zip Tonight’s program is devoted to figuring out what happened Saturday. Please note that I had a technical issue in the third segment (the one with my gritty analysis); I recorded it twice and it happened twice and I cannot record it a third time tonight. The audio is…

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